The Houston Collegiate Summer League is a Houston based "pay to play" summer woodbat league. Founded more than 30 years ago, the league, as of 2017, is affiliated with the National Baseball Congress (NBC). Its league champion earning a berth to the NBC World Series held in Wichita, KS at the end of the summer.

The league historically operated with 8-12 teams that played 21-27+ regular season games over a 10 week period that also included 1 week reserved for rain-out make-ups. In 2019, the league will host a 8 to 12-teams with major of the games played at Premier Baseball Complex and other complexes to be announced in February 2019.

Future league expansion will be considered on a team by team basis in the future.

Regulation games are 9-innings or 3 hours limits and played by American League MLB Rules, with a few local or NBC mandated rules governing pace of play and player safety. Coaches and league officials may review and discuss proposed changes throughout the summer if it serves the safety of the players, coaches and fans or the pace of play of the game.

The league will run from May 29th to July 31st, with the top 4 teams playing a post season championship series. Each team will play 21-27 regular season games. League games wiil be played as 3-game series with 3-games per week scheduled on Mondays and Wednesdays.

The League Champions, if they elect to travel to the World Series, shall be eligible for stipend from the HCSL Office, shall receive an additional stipend to help cover travel costs from the NBC World Series for each game they get to play while at the tournament.

The Houston Summer Collegiate Baseball League, over its existence, has had more than 25 former

ballplayers currently active in professional baseball either in Indy, MiLB or MLB organizations.

For questions or more informaion you may contact the league or coaches directly.